DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang's ongoing attempts to instigate BN MPs to vote against amendments to the Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act 1965 showed that he was anti-Islam, said deputy minister Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki.

"Lim's statement is malicious and was an attempt to incite and frighten Malaysians in relation to Act 355 which was amended for the first time without objections in 1984.

"DAP is showing its anti-Islam stance by inciting non-Muslim MPs in BN to raise doubts about the Act even though it was amended before this," he told reporters at the Parliament lobby today.